President Donald Trump retains repeating a falsehood about Osama bin Laden — maybe within the hopes that the extra he says it, the extra individuals will imagine it.
The president spoke concerning the late founding father of al Qaeda on Sunday whereas aboard Air Force One, the place he was accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and reporters.
Trump spoke to the gaggle about Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by U.S. forces and flown to New York City, alongside his spouse, to face narco-terrorism expenses. While speaking concerning the deposed chief, the president pivoted to an astonishing declare about bin Laden.
“Lindsey mentioned bin Laden. Do you know I wrote about bin Laden one year before the attack in the World Trade Center and I said, you got to go after bin Laden?” Trump falsely claimed. “It was in my book and very few people want to say that, but it was in my book.”
“You know that I think you’ve actually talked about it,” he informed a reporter. “But if they would have listened to me, they would have taken out bin Laden and you wouldn’t have had the World Trade Center tragedy.”
Trump has made this declare quite a few instances over time, regardless of many declaring that no such point out is made within the e-book he’s referencing, known as “The America We Deserve,” which he printed in 2000.
While Trump does point out bin Laden within the e-book and the potential for an additional terror assault that will be larger than the 1993 bombing on the World Trade Center, he doesn’t particularly hyperlink the 2 collectively.
“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” Trump wrote on the time. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
Back in 2019, Trump as soon as once more claimed that he by no means “gets any credit” for allegedly warning the U.S. about bin Laden again in 2000 (although the chief was positioned on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives checklist in 1999).
“In that book about a year before the World Trade Center was blown up, I said, ‘There’s somebody named Osama bin Laden. You’d better kill him or take him out,’” he stated throughout a press convention the place he introduced the demise of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
“Let’s put it this way ― if they would have listened to me, a lot of things would have been different,” Trump stated on the time.
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